CHHRE Presents - Literary Connections to the Holocaust

Literary Connections to the Holocaust 

4 pm, Wednesday, March 10 | FREE VIRTUAL EVENT 

Open To Educators, Students, and Members of the Community
Presented in collaboration with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Funded in part by FDOE Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education 

Register for Zoom Webinar: tiny.cc/HolocaustLit

• Curious George and the Holocaust Survivors Who Made Him
  You know Curious George. But did you know that he was the creation of Holocaust survivors Hans and Margret Rey? 
  
  
• The Dr. Seuss You Don’t Know: The Cartoonist Who Took on Hitler
  Did you know that Theodor Seuss Geisel was a political cartoonist who took on Hitler? Learn how Dr. Seuss fought Nazism with only pen and paper.
   
• How the Warsaw Zookeepers Risked their Lives to Shelter Jews
  The Warsaw Zoo director and his wife endangered their own lives to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto, hiding them in their home and on zoo grounds. Learn the true story behind the book and movie, The Zookeeper’s Wife. 

For more information, contact Linda Medvin at lmedvin@fau.edu

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